Word: target
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Front Runner Kennedy is also drawing inevitable potshots from the rear, and a position-taking U.S. Senator pushing such hot subjects as labor reform, immigration, minimum wages, and unemployment compensation makes a target of high visibility. Busiest potshotter: New York's Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, a warm Stevenson admirer, who attacked Kennedy on two charges: 1) Jack, author of prizewinning Profiles in Courage, "understands what courage is and admires it, but has not quite the independence to have it" (he took no stand in the fight over the late Joe McCarthy); 2) Jack's father, Multimillionaire Joseph...
...Peking's planners are able to meet this ambitious target in 1959, it will take its place among the new miracles of People's China - alongside the 330-lb. sweet potato and a marvelous plant that allegedly grows tomatoes above ground and potatoes below. But of all the wonders boasted by Red China, none can beat the economic snafu created by Peking's planners in the past year...
...Assembly last October was insufficient to restore law and order and prepare for national elections. After a decorous debate last week, all parties except the Red-lining National United Front agreed with Ne Win and amended the constitution to let the general resume power-and again prepare for elections. Target date: some time before...
...more logical is an attack through the thalamus, part of the central nervous system which relays many pain impulses to the higher perception centers. Biggest drawback: the thalamus, tucked away in the middle of the skull, is hard to get at, and early operations on it often missed the target by a fraction of an inch...
Nevertheless, almost every economist from New Dealing Leon Keyserling to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund experts and Harvard's Sumner Slichter would like to see the U.S. grow faster. They agree that the old 3% target is outdated, and that the goal should be 5% a year from...